Split into 5 parts.
This film preaches many of the same messages as the drunk driving public information film that was commented on earlier. It shares many similarities, most obviously that it is aimed at teen drivers. Young people seem to be targetted frequently in a lot of these films, showing that young people have been considered a problem since forever. Also notice another war reference, as we have seen in previous films. Here, the narrator claims that more deraths had occured on the road up until that point than had been killed in the Korean War. Obviously this number would have multiplied enormously since then.. so much that the number would be incomparable.
Another thing I have noticed that links these films is that they almost always have a story. At that point the medium of the documentary film had not yet been popularised, and so a (now) cheesy backstory is used to hook the attention of the viewer, like a soap opera. Not until around the time that the 'Skateboard Sense' PIF was made did these standards change.
Also notice that in this instance death is used as a tool to shock, as we have seen previously. Plus, another authority figure plays a roll. Sometimes it's a headteacher, this time it's a policeman. The same generic values continuously occur in these early PIF's.
Finally, I would like to say that it was nice to see Tom Hanks in this movie, if only briefly. He is surely younger than his years. ;-)
